Mailing Address:
Division of Epidemiology
320 W. 10
th Ave.
B222 Starling-Loving Hall
Columbus OH 43210
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Education:
Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, University of Tennessee, 1978
BA, Psychology, Denison University, 1973
Background:
Dr. Murray has spent his career evaluating intervention programs designed to improve the public health. He has worked with all age groups, in a variety of settings, and with a variety of health behaviors and disease outcomes. In particular, Dr. Murray has focused on the design and analysis of group-randomized trials in which identifiable social groups are randomized to conditions and members of those groups are observed to assess the effect of an intervention. Dr. Murray wrote the first textbook on that material, published by Oxford University Press in 1998. He is actively involved in many of these trials, collaborating with colleagues around the country on their design, implementation and evaluation. He also conducts research to develop and test new methods for their analysis. Dr. Murray recently completed a two-year term as Chair of the Community-Level Heath Promotion study section at NIH.
Decreasing Weight Gain in African-American Preadolescent girls
Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls
Community Youth Development Project
WeCan
Dental Project
Multi-Ethnic Drug Abuse Prevention Center
Center for Prevention and Early Intervention
Dr. Murray's Group Randomized Trial Page
Kudos:
Dr. Murray was recently appointed to a three-year term as a member of the Editorial Board for Preventive Medicine, 2005-2008. He was also elected to a three-year term as a member of the Board of Directors for the Society for Prevention Research, 2006-2009.
In 2005, Dr. Murray became a member of the faculty for the annual Summer Institute on Design and Conduct of Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions, sponsored by the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. That same year, he also became a member of the faculty for the Annual Summer Institute in Mental Health Research, Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
2007 Publications:
Murray, D.M., Blitstein, J.L., Hannan, P.J., Baker, W.L, Lytle, L.A. Sizing a trial to alter the trajectory of health behaviors: methods, parameter estimates, and their application. Statistics in Medicine, 2007, 26(11), 2297-2316.
Wickwire, E. M., Whelan, J.P., Meyers, A.W., and Murray, D.M. Environmental correlates of gambling behavior in urban adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007, 35(2),179-190.
Katz, M.L., Tatum, C., Dickinson, S.L., Murray, D.M., Long-Foley, K., Cooper, M.R., Daven, M., Paskett, E.D. Improving colorectal screening by using community volunteers: results of the Carolinas Center Education and Screening (CARES) project. Cancer, 2007, 110(7), 1602-1610.
Stevens, J., Taber, D.R., Murray, D.M., Ward, D.S. Advances and controversies in the design of obesity prevention trials. Obesity Research, 2007, 15(9), 2163-2170.
2006 Publications:
Murray, D.M., Hannan, P.J., Varnell, S.P., McCowen, R.G., Baker, W.L., Blitstein, J.L. A comparison of permutation and mixed-model regression methods for the analysis of simulated data in the context of a group-randomized trial. Statistics in Medicine, 2006, 25(3), 375-388.
Lichstein, K.L., Stone, K.C., Donaldson, J., Nau, S.D., Soeffing, J.P., Murray, D.M. Lester, K.W., Aguillard, R.N. Actigraphy validation with insomnia. Sleep, 2006, 29(2), 232-239.
Murray, D.M., Van Horn, M.L., Hawkins, J.D., Arthur, M.W. Analysis strategies for a community trial to reduce adolescent ATOD use: A comparison of random coefficient and ANOVA/ANCOVA models. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 2006, 27, 188-206.
Murray, D.M., Stevens, J., Hannan, P. J., Catellier, D. J., Schmitz, K.H., Dowda, M., Conway, T.L., Rice, J.C., Yang, S. School-level intraclass correlation for physical activity in sixth grade girls. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2006, 38(5), 926-36.
Robinson, L.A., Murray, D.M., Alfano, C.M., Zbikowski, S.M., Blitstein, J.L., Klesges, R.C. Ethnic differences in predictors of adolescent smoking onset and escalation: A longitudinal study from seventh to twelfth grade. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 2006, 8(2), 297-307.
Murray, D.M., Blitstein, J.L., Hannan, P.J., Baker, W.L, Lytle, L.A. Sizing a trial to alter the trajectory of health behaviors: methods, parameter estimates, and their application. Statistics in Medicine, in press.
Phillips, G.A., Shadish, W.R., Murray, D.M., Kubik, M., Lytle, L.A., Birnbaum, A.S. The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale with a young adolescent population: A confirmatory factor analysis and implementation of a general hierarchical model. Multivariate Behavioral Research, in press.
Frankel, Z., Levitt, H., Murray, D.M. Assessing psychotherapy silences: An empirically supported categorization system and sampling strategy. Psychotherapy Research, 16(5):2006. 627-638.
Lytle, L.A., Kubik, M.Y., Perry, C., Story, M., Birnbaum, A.S., Murray, D., Snyder P. Environmental outcomes from the TEENS Study: Influencing healthful food choices in school and home environments. Preventive Medicine, in press.
Pfeiffer, K.A., Schmitz, K.H., McMurray, R.G., Treuth, M.S., Murray, D.M., Pate, R.R. Variability in energy expenditure of selected physical activities in adolescent girls. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, in press.
